FS199000001000_950000_001, 1995/00/00撮影, Public Domain, CC0

Man in Ecstasy

Title	Man in Ecstasy
Artist	エルンスト・バルラッハ　Ernst BARLACH
Date	1911-12
Medium	bronze
Dimensions	46.0×31.3×15.0
Classification	Sculptures
Accession Number	FS199000001000
Summary	The figure in a state of ecstasy, strides forward with arms raised, shouting. The simple forms are compressed into a basic cone for more powerful expression. Barlach considered giving this work the title of Despair. It exemplifies the characteristics of German Expressionism, which found the subject of art in the inner life of human beings and gave it forceful expression. This fine piece represents the artist's work around 1910 when he established his own personal style.

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Native place	Wedel, PRU [now DEU]
Birth	1870
Dead place	Rostock, DEU
Died	1938
Biography	Barlach was born in Wedel in northern Germany. After going to a technical school in Hamburg he studied sculpture at the Academy of Art in Dresden. He preferred to use figures of common people in ordinary situation as his subjects. This preference became stronger when he traveled to Russia in 1906 and felt a deep sympathy with the peasants he met there. The following year he exhibited with the Berlin Secession. He found the spirit of the age in the living emotions of common people and expressed it in powerful forms, creating a unique and truly expressionistic sculpture. He was recognized as one of the most important artists in Germany, but when the Nazis came to power his art was branded "degenerate" and suppressed. In spite of this, he stayed in Germany and ended his life in despair.

Man in Ecstasy

Ernst BARLACH